When you’re facing a day (or week…or month) filled with interruptions and distractions, it’s ideal to focus on quick projects! Knowing what you can complete, however, in such a short period of time is difficult.

If you’ve followed us for awhile, you know we think spending time on book marketing every day is an absolute must. To help out my fellow time-strapped folk, I’ve put together a list of 31 book marketing (and fanbase-building) ideas that you can easily complete in a day — or less!

Email a fan who has commented on a recent blog post, just to say “thank you.”

Tweet a personal “thank you” to every non-spammer who has mentioned you in the past week.

Talk Back

There’s a few of these I need to try: scheduling for the next four weeks sounds like a fantastic plan. I’ve come to a stage where I’m dropping from three (scheduled) blog posts per week to two, so this could be a good time to implement a new scheduling pattern too.

I think connecting with readers is a huge thing, really. Commenting on blogs, sharing links, thanking followers – all small steps towards greater social karma.

Thanks a lot for this!
Ryan

Jasmine

Great advice! Especially the tip on engaging with your readers. In today’s digital world, that is vital and almost expected. If you haven’t already, there are tons of helpful tools to help you get started with social media, including a marketing Facebook app for authors. Good luck! http://www.freebooksy.com/freebooksy-author-marketing-ap

Thanks, Ryan. I always love to hear your thoughts on our ideas! You’ll probably find that dropping blog posts works better all-around; every time we’ve done it (we’ve moved from 5-4-3-2-1 post per week since we started), the decision has never been regretted! Once you’ve built up an awesome collection of posts (which you totally have), it gets much easier to drop down in frequency. Good luck!

Guys, it’s like y’all read my mind! Lately, I’ve been feeling kind of blah, not knowing what to do as far as “marketing” and “platform” without feeling like a bot or something. These are awesome ideas that are engaging and authentic. Thanks! Would like to go ahead and do #2: Thanks guys for the awesome mention of Friday Features!

Woohoo! Thanks, Yesenia — I always wanted to be a mind reader 😉 Seriously, though, I’m so glad the list was helpful, and you’re most welcome for including Friday Features. I totally know how time consuming it is to put something like that together, so kudos to you for doing it (especially with everything else you have going on)!

Angela Booth

Brilliant ideas. Most of the them are easy, and fun too. Thank you. Love the “freebie” idea.

Awesome! Tip 32: Comment on those website who give great advice for self publishers! Tell them you love their blog!

LOVE YOUR BLOG!

A. Kraintz

I have just started out publishing my E-book exclusively at Amazon.I have few sales already. I want this to be successful. I will try as many of these as i can and respond again later. Thanks for the ideas!